The Peoples Democratic Party’s leaders (PDP), have accused the All Progressives Congress Party (APC) of the Buhari-led administration of using security agencies, especially the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), to chase and oppress them in a continued effort to discourage and reduce the opposition chances ahead of the 2023 general elections, according to a statement released on Saturday by the party.

Neither intimidation, harassment, nor the use of anti-graft agencies will be able to coerce or force the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to bow or withdraw the mandate already given to it by Nigerians for 2023, according to a statement issued on Saturday by Kola Ologbondiyan, the party’s National Publicity Secretary.

The PDP asserted that the APC is well aware that it has been dismissed by Nigerians as a result of its egregious failures and that it will not be able to win elections under any circumstances.

He asserted that the APC intends to use the state infrastructure of power to destroy and silence opposition and dissenting voices, as well as impose an anti-democratic scenario on the citizens of the country.

“Part of this heinous plot by the APC is to use the EFCC to bully, harass and hound PDP leaders, who are rallying Nigerians for the task ahead, with a view to coercing them to abdicate the mandate of the people and join the APC.

“This explains why the EFCC and other security agencies have been harassing PDP leaders such as former Senate President Bukola Saraki, former PDP state governors, including the former governor of Abia State, Senator Theodore Orji, former governor of Bayelsa State, Seriake Dickson, his Kano State counterpart, Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso, and other key PDP leaders, on trump up charges. Their counterparts in the APC with similar allegations as well as others who had defected to the APC are moving around freely,” he said.